Garment hanging screen



Feb. 8, 1949.

H. DERMAN GARMENT HANGING scREEN Filed Jan 17, 1947 I I I 19 4 I '9 2 6 24 N v 5 25 INVENTOR HARRY DERMAN Patented Feb. 8, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT "OFFICE I 2,460,978" 7 GARMENT HANGING seminar:

Harry Derman, Great Neck, N. Y. Application January 17, 1947, Sela] No; 722,643-- This invention relates to screens employing a plurality of sections hingedly coupled to'adjusted the sections one with respect to the other in forming enclosures. Still more particularly,the

invention deals with means for hanging garments or garment hangers from upper portions of the screen, said means being in the form of supporting hooks, so shaped, in conjunction with the contour of upper edges of the screen, as to frictionally support the hooks within boundaries of the screen when not in use and forming stron supporting hooks for garments or garment hangers when in extended position with respect to the screen.

The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description, when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed and, in which, the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views and, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the upper portion only of a screen showing a number of the supporting hooks thereon in different positions; and

Fig. 2 is a detail view of the upper portion of one screen on an enlarged scale indicating the means for tensionally retaining a hook in inoperative position. 7

In screens of the kind under consideration, particularly when they are used as a means for forming an enclosure, behind which a party may disrobe, no means has been provided for support of garments removed from the body except on a chair arranged Within the environment or by throwing the garments on top of the screen.

It is the purpose of my invention to provide on screens of the kind under consideration a simple, economical and practical form of garment or garment hanger supporting hook, whereby means is provided for supporting garments upon the inner surface of the screen in uses as indicated above.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing, I have shown at 5, 6 and 1 three screen sections, the sections and I being end portions and hinged to the upright rails or frame members of adjacent sections, as indicated at 18. Each section has an upper finishing strip 9, I8 and II, which strips are all of the same general contour and have the irregular or curved edges, as at l2, l3 and I4, these edges having, at their ends, common concaved surfaces, as indicated at l5, [5 on the strip 9; I6, It on the strip l0; and l1, H on the strip H. Centrally of each of the recesses l5, l6 and I1 is an aperture extending downwardly through the strip 4 Claims. (01. 160-127) i 2. and one of'theseapertures is indicated at 18 in the strip 9 of Fig. 2 of the drawing. Insaid figure is also shown the recess l5, for illustrative purposes. At l9, in Fig. 2, is shown one of the supporting hooksor bracketmembers and, as thesemembers are all of-the sameconstruction,

like ref erences identify like members in the, re-

spective showings. As indicated in Fig.- 1 of the drawing, these members can be normally retained within the boundaries of the respective recesses so as to become substantially non-visible and to form no objection whatever or can be swung to extend at substantially right angles to one side surface of the screen sections Three of the members areshown in extended position inFig. 3 and three are shown in the collap ed position.

The-members l9 include rod portions 20;,note Fig. 2, which fit snugly in the apertures I8 and upper curved arm portions 2|, the curvatures of which are normally as indicated in dot-dash lines at 2! in Fig. 2, so that, in assuming the collapsed position, the curved arms are tensioned slightly to frictionally engage the surface of the recess l5, thus retaining the members l9 against accidental displacement. It will be apparent, however,that the ends 2l' may be forcibly moved into extended positions and, when in extended position, the curvatures form upwardly extending free end portions 22 which will retain the -garment from displacement from the supporting hook or bracket, as well as to retain a garment hanger from displacement.

In the present construction, the curved ends 2| will substantially conform to the contour of the respective recesses l5, l6 and I1 etc. when in their collapsed position and, thus, will become substantially invisible upon the screen. Furthermore, these members are contained within the boundary of the strips 9, l0 and II, thus facilitating packaging and shipment thereof.

In addition to supporting garments in the manner described, when screens are used for display or other purposes, the hooks may be utilized in support of articles of any type or kind on the screens; furthermore, my invention is not necessarily limited to any particular location of the supporting hooks and the heavy strips of the frames maybe shaped to position the hooks thereon and also to control, to some degree, the resulting shape of the hooks employed.

In the construction shown, the separate screen sections comprise heavy bordering frames of V which the strips 9, l0 and II form a part and the main body portion of the screen has relatively thin panels, as at 23, 24 and 25.

Having fully described my invention, what I- claim as. new: and;.,desireto-- secure :by .Letters Patentis: 1 i

1. A screen of the character described, said screen comprising hingedly coupled sections, each section having, at its upper end, a rail terminating in an upper curved surface, said rail centrally of a curved surface having a verticalraperture, a hanger hook comprising a part fitting in the aperture of said rail, and a curved finger conforming enerally to the contour of the curvature 1 of said surface and frictionally engaging the surface to retain the hook against accidental displacementtherefrom within the side boundaries of said rail.

2. A screen of the character described, said screen comprising hingedly coupled sections; each section having, at its upper end, a'rail terminating in an upper curved surface, said rail centrally of 'a-curved surface having a vertical aperture, a hanger hook comprising a part fitting in the aperture of said'rail, a curved 'finger conforming generally to the contour of the curvature of said surface and frictionally engaging the surface to retain the hookagainst "accidental displacement therefrom Within the side boundaries of said rail,

the finger of saidhook being adapted to be extended angularly with'respect to the rail in the usethereof, and the free end of "the finger having an upturned end. 7

3. In screens having a number of hingedly coupled sections, each section having, at its upper end, a rail, the upper surface of the rail having, at end portions thereof, substantially semi-circular concaved surfaces, the rails centrally of the concaved surfaces having vertical apertures, garment hanger hooks movably supported in the apertures of said raiL and said hooks having curved finger portions conforming generally to the curvature of said curved surfaces and tensioned to engage the concaved surfaces in sup- 'porting the hooks against accidental displacement and within side boundaries of said rail.

4. The combination with a screen having a plurality of hingedly coupled sections, of means at the upper portions of the sections for hanging articles thereon, and said last named means comprisin hook-type members adapted to be arranged angularly with respect to the sections and ,to be retained within boundaries of the sections when not in'use. w

' HARRYDERMAN.

' REFERENCES CITED The following references arefof record in the fileof thispatent:

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